When Josh Jones premieres Augusta Read Thomas’s “Illuminations” on Monday, he’ll make the timpani speak. Thomas’s piece, which she calls a “gratitude fanfare” with solo timpani, embeds words of thanksgiving into its main themes. The opening ta-taaaa gesture in the brass, played by students from DePaul University’s Wind Ensemble, is a musical “thank you.” A few bars later, Jones rollicks in, his rhythm mimicking the syllables of the phrase, “We give you our gratitude.” That “gratitude” motif transforms, again and again, over the 10-minute fanfare. No two statements are the same, so naturally, Jones wouldn’t play them the same way. In the first rehearsal, Jones probed Thomas about the score
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